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> It is embarrassing that developers [also designers and other creatives in gaming] are the core of any tech company Clearly not true, especially in b2b enterp
by polote 5y ago
> It is embarrassing that developers [also designers and other creatives in gaming] are the core of any tech company
Clearly not true, especially in b2b enterprise where you can sell even if you don't have a product
- viraptor 5y agoThat's called running a scam and that's not really comparable...
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThere are loads of criminals, but only the dumb ones are in jail
- zdragnar 5y agoI always thought this was an overhyped myth until I watched a relatively innovation-oriented enterprise purchase a database company... So many hilariously bad powerpoint slides, so much money on the table. When we were instructed to use it, we discovered that the "database" (really just a custom prolog engine + storage container) couldn't support paginated queries. Would have to fetch millions of rows on the server, then pick only the 20 we were interested in to send to the front-end. Most of the dev team spent the next few months doing little but dreaming up powerpoint presentations we could use to get millions, as every schema change required recompiling the entire db from source, so we had lots of sitting around time until management figured out how badly they screwed up.
- cipheredStones 5y agoThat's incredible. Did they just... not involve any actual developers in evaluating the product of the company they were about to buy?
- datavirtue 5y agoThat sounds a little worse than the first database engine I wrote.
- willcipriano 5y agoFinally a company with no cost centers, just idea men generating pure profit and making deals with other idea men.